It's a good Emulator, PhracturedBlue, love it! Thank you for bringing this fabulous release out!

Now I can show it to everyone I know. Here in Germany, many people are very excited about the possibilities of the new Firmware. Now they can try it.

By the way, what was that "Scanner" functionality?

And: your link to the Manual is the same as the Emulator link. It does not contain the manual

And you can be shure, that I, being a "User Experience Activist" , will at least enchance your Firmware with even better Graphics. Have I already mentioned, that it is a very good approach of you, to make the Graphics and colors user editable?

I'd like to give a huge thanks to:
FDR who has done all the work putting the website and forums together, and has spent countless hours with the emulator, helping to define how it looks and works, and finding lots and lots of bugs. If the emulator doesn't immediately crash, you can thank FDR for his patience in debugging the emulator.

MatCat who provided the GUI architecture and has graciously provided hosting

rch4x0r, who we haven't seen for a long time, but without whom this likely wouldn't have happened. He was instrumental in figuring out how to get access to the ardware, as well as in defining the Deviation firmware

Again: This is only a release of the emulator. It cannot be installed on the Tx. There is still a lot of work to do before we're ready for that, but this is your first chance to geta peek at how the firmware will work, and to provide feedback.

Also, at this point, I will likely postpose all feature requests. Getting what we have working in the Devo8 Tx is my next priority. But I am certainly interested in any feedback you may have.

The key mappings for the emulator can be found in the users guide.

For the emulator, there is no installation needed. unzip the file, and run the executable. We'll hopefully be providing a Mac OSX build soon as well.

I can hack up an OS X build today after work quickly for 64 bit capable Intel Macs (that's every Mac that can run Lion, it doesn't require Lion, though). If anyone desperately needs a 32 bit build, I could look into that, but I'd rather avoid the additional work. If you still have a PPC Mac, I'm sorry, try to compile yourself.

It's a good Emulator, PhracturedBlue, love it! Thank you for bringing this fabulous release out!

Now I can show it to everyone I know. Here in Germany, many people are very excited about the possibilities of the new Firmware. Now they can try it.

By the way, what was that "Scanner" functionality?

And: your link to the Manual is the same as the Emulator link. It does not contain the manual

And you can be shure, that I, being a "User Experience Activist" , will at least enchance your Firmware with even better Graphics. Have I already mentioned, that it is a very good approach of you, to make the Graphics and colors user editable?

Model configuration: the icon for Tx Power is shown only at the mixer page.
Main screen: flashing background color of the timer display is very slow ( emulator only?)
Virtual keyboard: pressed key shows two characters (emulator only?)
Fixed ID: button foreground shows not the value i have typed in (emulator only?)

Main screen: flashing background color of the timer display is very slow ( emulator only?)

What do you mean by 'flashing'? The redraw rate of updating the font is quite noticeable. It is even slower on the transmitter, but isn't that terrible. The background should never flash when the timer is running. It will turn from white to red when the timer goes negative. If you can give a more concrete example, I'll investigate.

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Virtual keyboard: pressed key shows two characters (emulator only?)

I don't see this behavior generally. Which keys are you pressing that are being duplicated? Is this on both the numpad and alpha pad?

What do you mean by 'flashing'? The redraw rate of updating the font is quite noticeable. It is even slower on the transmitter, but isn't that terrible. The background should never flash when the timer is running. It will turn from white to red when the timer goes negative. If you can give a more concrete example, I'll investigate.

I don't see this behavior generally. Which keys are you pressing that are being duplicated? Is this on both the numpad and alpha pad?

Virtual keyboard:
It was the numpad.
I have seen this only once, after restarting the emulator all was as expected.
When i pressed the "1" it displays "1!" or "1(" or "1T" on the key, each press an other combination.

Thanks, I can reproduce. I guess I never let it run that long. This is the reason I need people to play with it

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Virtual keyboard:
It was the numpad.
I have seen this only once, after restarting the emulator all was as expected.
When i pressed the "1" it displays "1!" or "1(" or "1T" on the key, each press an other combination.

Well, it definitely sounds like a bug, but I haven't seen it yet. Maybe an uninitialized value somewhere. I'll look through the code and see if I can find something.

Don't know if this helps with anything but when I was setting up my Robird the receiver menu showed that pitch and gyro on the Devo TX goes from -101 to +91 and I had to adjust subtrim to zero it at center and have it equal in both directions.

I thought I'd mention that the Deviation firmware now binds to a RX2801Pro and to a RX2609

So with the press of a button I can now control:
DEVO 1202/1002/802 receivers
WK2801 and WK2601 based receivers
DSM2 receivers
nine-eagles J6 pro receivers.

all through a simple firmware update, no need to open the Tx.

As I don't have any WK2401 hardware, I can't test that, but we're making good progress.

Also, wuselfuzz was able to fix a couple of longstanding reliability issues, which gives me more confidence in the firmware running on the tx.

There is still a lot of work needed before it is ready for non-developers though, and as I mentioned earlier, I won't be able to spend as much time on it this month, so I don't have an ETA for when the bravest of you can try it out.